Nuclear weapons 'as numerous as ever': study - Yahoo! News: "STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Disarmament vows have failed to reduce the nuclear threat as nations invest in new weapons systems, a leading think-tank said Tuesday, amid a rise in global tensions due to competition for scarce resources.
'More than 5,000 nuclear weapons are deployed and ready for use, including nearly 2,000 that are kept in a high state of alert,' the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) warned in its annual report.
The world's eight nuclear powers -- Britain, China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the US -- possess more than 20,500 warheads, the think-tank said."
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